Polycultural Phenomenology

Phenomenology, as developed by Husserl, provides a foundation for polyculturalism by breaking with speculative philosophy and emphasizing pure self-observation, similar to Eastern psychotechnics like yoga and Buddhism. These traditions all reformat cultural frameworks to enable transcendental meditation. Phenomenology overcomes the crisis in European social sciences by escaping the deadlock of speculative philosophy and positivism. Its universal value lies in creating a cross-cultural research methodology that allows systems such as Vedanta, yoga, Buddhism, and phenomenology to coexist in a single intersubjective field.

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Abstract

The paper deals with the issue of the phenomenological foundations of polyculturalism on the basis of the categories of the following concepts: multi-layer being, concretization, intentionality, life world, and epoché. A comparison of phenomenology with eastern psychotechnics allows us to stress the importance of Husserl's break with the tradition of speculative philosophy. Phenomenology is a pure experience of selfobservation. Such a radical intellectual position is similar to that of yoga and Buddhism which is also built after breaking with past traditions. They all reformat the cultural shell in order to reset and justify the experience of transcendental meditation. The achievement of the phenomenology lies not only in its reformist direction in philosophy, but also in that it solves the problem of overcoming the crisis of social sciences in Europe due to breaking the deadlock of speculative philosophy and positivism. Its universal value is in the development of cross-cultural research methodology, with the help of which such systems as Vedanta, yoga, Buddhism and phenomenology itself can be in a single intersubjective field.